Ksh log out message.

[Mike Jeff]

Hi everyone,

My problem is when I logout, I get the message:

"ksh: l: Arguments must be %job or process ids"

Any ideas?

[RAC_1 · Accepted solution]

Check your profile. Check for the trap command and check what it does??

Anil

[Alex Lavrov.]

WEll, it seems that in your logout script, you have some command that produces this output. Check in your profile file which script is it and try to debug it.

[Geoff Wild]

Also check for .logout

Rgds...Geoff

[Stephen Keane]

In particular look for something like

jobs -l

[Mike Jeff]

Thanks for all your quick responses everyone! I did forget to mention that the .logout file did not exist for this login.

The problem was with /etc/profile. The following entry had been commented out by one of my colleagues:

trap "echo logout" 0

[Mike Jeff]

Thanks to all that helped!

The problem was caused by the following entry in /etc/profile being commented out:

trap "echo logout" 0